The Competition & Teaser Thread

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I think only the SqB or PzB system could be used for a title such as Stalingrad. If you want room to room fighting you need to go to SqB's or a scale below for it to work. PzB's with its platoon basis is about the limit for detailed city fighting.

The other changes that PzB (or any other game) would need to handle is the impact of multilevel buildings as well as the sewers. These were factors that strongly influenced the control (or lack) of any area. As pointed out, 250 meter hexes are more like city blocks and determining ownership in three dimensions could be difficult. Another consideration is that the map would have to be custom built with a much wider range of building types that could be manually placed in the configurations required. All cities are well mapped and players fighting in Berlin or Stalingrad would want to play on an accurate facsimile of that map.

Now that said, if these technical issues could be solved you could have a brilliant platoon/company simulation of city fighting. I am imagining opposing forces coexisting in the same hex if they are on different height levels, only assaulting if at the same level.

Another alternative is to change the hex size and stacking limits so more detailed map can be done and only say platoons can be in a particular hex. The game system is flexible enough to do it.


DON'T get me thinking about another project...!

David
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The compass, ? and movement arrows a bright red or arrows could even go with a canary yellow. The ?s definitely need to stand out. I also assume they would be in hexes where suspected sightings were, not just for the sake of forming a possible front line. If nothing was possibly spotted, no point in having a ? in that particular hex. I also assume that when there is a question mark, maybe a truck was spotted in town, but was it empty or fully loaded, don't know without better recon. It may also have just passed from behind one building to behind another.

As far as room to room fighting, it could only be done, IMO, in a series with individual men, which would be cool for scenarios from squad up to battalion size. Many options there for scenarios.

SBs could be made to handle multilevel buildings, but not really room to room. The squads could have a small square stick out to the side like pinned markers, but with the number of what level they are on, 1, 2, 3 or R for roof and S for sewer. Similar to the board game Squad Leader.

As for PBs, in order to get a more detailed feel for different areas, I don't think different sized hexes, but maybe more changing the scale of the hex or a combo of both. Rather than 250m per hex, make it something like 100-125 or 150.